Hi David
On 18 Aug 2000, at 19:57, David Norris wrote:
> I think ishtml() might qualify as a bug. It doesn't seem to help
> anything. Do you see any problems with assuming everything to be HTML?
> No one seems to mention whether they think it is good or bad. As
> SWISH-E becomes more powerful I think assuming plain text is very
> limiting.
>
I totally agree. I am thinking on adding more directives to the config
file. On of them could be:
DefaultFileType Value
Possible values are: txt, html, xml, wap ...
If Value is html, ishtml() can always return 1.
To maintain backwards compatibility, the default value should be txt
> For example, all filters are assumed to be text. I am using many
> filters which return HTML.
>
In the same way. We can extend FileFilter to:
FileFilter <file-ext> <filter-program> <file-type>
If no file-type is given, then DefaultFileType should be used
>
> I plan to spend some time on the stemmer.c and soundex.c this weekend.
> I have been busy during the week.
Good luck.
cu
Jose